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Obeying Parents
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The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →
the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;
`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.
Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,
`Honour thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee, so that thy days are prolonged, and so that it is well with thee, on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.
for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother--let him die the death;
Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.
`Each his mother and his father ye do fear, and My sabbaths ye do keep; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God.
An eye that mocketh at a father, And despiseth to obey a mother, Dig it out do ravens of the valley, And eat it do young eagles.
Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.
The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;
And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.
for Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother--let him die the death;
A wise son--the instruction of a father, And a scorner--he hath not heard rebuke.
for men shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, evil-speakers, to parents disobedient, unthankful, unkind,
Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.
and he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and he was subject to them, and his mother was keeping all these sayings in her heart,
`If ye love me, my commands keep,
A fool despiseth the instruction of his father, And whoso is regarding reproof is prudent.
honour thy father and mother,
Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother. — read the full passage →
the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.
evil-speakers, God-haters, insulting, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
`Cursed <FI>is<Fi> He who is making light of his father and his mother, --and all the people have said, Amen.
And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;
Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding. — read the full passage →
if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;
My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep, — read the full passage →
he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;
the commands thou hast known: Thou mayest not commit adultery, Thou mayest do no murder, Thou mayest not steal, Thou mayest not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.'
`If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;
honour thy father and mother, and, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.'
`When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious--he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them-- — read the full passage →
and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and the death shall not be any more, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor shall there be any more pain, because the first things did go away.'
which is the first command with a promise, `That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live a long time upon the land.'
for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.
Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother, — read the full passage →
Her sons have risen up, and pronounce her happy, Her husband, and he praiseth her,
Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.
honour thy father and mother, — read the full passage →
The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →
ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;
No--I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye even so shall perish.
The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →
And Peter having opened his mouth, said, `Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons,
`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.
Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'
he who hath believed, and hath been baptized, shall be saved; and he who hath not believed, shall be condemned.
A rod and reproof give wisdom, And a youth let away is shaming his mother.
Whoso is robbing his father, or his mother, And is saying, `It is not transgression,' A companion he is to a destroyer.
Whoso is sparing his rod is hating his son, And whoso is loving him hath hastened him chastisement.
He who is saying in him he doth remain, ought according as he walked also himself so to walk.
and the helmet of the salvation receive, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the saying of God,
for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,
To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled, — read the full passage →
that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,
Law then do we make useless through the faith? let it not be! yea, we do establish law.
for in what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged, and in what measure ye measure, it shall be measured to you.
Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causeth a father to rejoice, And a foolish son <FI>is<Fi> an affliction to his mother.
Unto the woman He said, `Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband <FI>is<Fi> thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'
Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,
for to this ye were called, because Christ also did suffer for you, leaving to you an example, that ye may follow his steps,
and he who did look into the perfect law--that of liberty, and did continue there, this one--not a forgetful hearer becoming, but a doer of work--this one shall be happy in his doing.
Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising <FI>us<Fi> , and we were reverencing <FI>them<Fi> ; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?
The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →
For Christ is an end of law for righteousness to every one who is believing,
for not the hearers of the law <FI>are<Fi> righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be declared righteous: --
and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,
for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →
And he said to them, `Well do ye put away the command of God that your tradition ye may keep; — read the full passage →
And these shall go away to punishment age-during, but the righteous to life age-during.'
`And what think ye? A man had two children, and having come to the first, he said, Child, go, to-day be working in my vineyard.' — read the full passage →
Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not. — read the full passage →
Chastise thy son, for there is hope, And to put him to death lift not up thy soul.
And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I--I do trust in Thee!
`Hear, O Israel, Jehovah our God <FI>is<Fi> one Jehovah; — read the full passage →
`At the presence of grey hairs thou dost rise up, and thou hast honoured the presence of an old man, and hast been afraid of thy God; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.
`And he who is reviling his father or his mother is certainly put to death.
A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,
and this is the love, that we may walk according to His commands; this is the command, even as ye did hear from the beginning, that in it ye may walk,
the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,
lo, we call happy those who are enduring; the endurance of Job ye heard of, and the end of the Lord ye have seen, that very compassionate is the Lord, and pitying.
for He who is saying, `Thou mayest not commit adultery,' said also, `Thou mayest do no murder;' and if thou shalt not commit adultery, and shalt commit murder, thou hast become a transgressor of law;
religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world.
Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this <FI>is<Fi> unprofitable to you.
for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;
Servants--to their own masters <FI>are<Fi> to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,
every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,
And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times,
Thou, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus,
and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.
The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;
with good-will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men,
Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →
because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;
he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.' — read the full passage →
and Jesus having taken up <FI>the word<Fi> , said, `A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and having stripped him and inflicted blows, they went away, leaving <FI>him<Fi> half dead. — read the full passage →
And Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding-- — read the full passage →
for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?
Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest.
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